PRIESTLY AND RELIGIOUS VOCATION INTENTION
is in the heart of Filipino Chaplaincy Prayer

LORD JESUS, the bounty of the harvest keeps growing. And yet labourers who work in your vineyard,
remains scarce and in constant exposure to exhaustion and scorn.

You keep sounding your invitation: “Ask the Lord of the harvest to send more
labourers.” We ask you, through the intercession of Mary, our Mother, San Lorenzo
Ruiz and all the Saints, to bless the Filipino Chaplaincy in our Diocese with bountiful
vocations that it may continue to serve your church with passion and zeal.

With much hope in the power you bestowed on prayer, offered in perfect communion
among your people, we dare to ask you, O Lord, to make our lives your constant and
living encouragement for our young men and women to heed your call. Make the
Filipino families their shining inspirations of faith to get them firmly decide in joining
the rank of those who are chosen.

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Gospel Reflection for 28th Sunday OT B2012

posted Oct 14, 2012, 2:49 PM by Alberto dela Cruz

EMPTINESS THAT KEEPS US IN
SEARCH

(Mk 10.17-30)

“…what must I do to inherit
eternal life?”

Mark puts this question on the
lips of the rich young man “who ran up, knelt down and asked the Good Teacher,”
as the sole statement around which his gospel draws its details. How to inherit eternal life has not been
explained and made known except that “for human beings it is impossible, but
not for God.”

Even the summon to “go, sell
everything you have, and give to the poor…” does not benefit eternal life but
just having “treasure in heaven.” The
following invitation of Jesus, although sounds to be getting there, only
indicates continuous search: “come,
follow me.”

What the Gospel suggests, it
seems, is that eternal life is not and can not be the fruit of human effort but
pure, sheer heavenly gift. As human as
we are, there’s always in us “one thing which is lacking.” An emptiness that no human effort can fill in,
an emptiness that keeps the human heart in search, till it finds its rest in
God. I just hope that with this, eternal
life begins. Amen